Shawn McAvinue

Mayfair Theatre Charitable Trust member Tom Ross prepares to shut the door at Mayfair Costume Hire in South Dunedin on Saturday.

Contractors are on track to finish the four-storey car parking building behind the former Dunedin chief post office by mid-February.

Fluffy appears twice in a shortlist of names for a takahe chick at Orokonui Ecosanctuary.

Graduating from a Salvation Army course last night are students (from left) Brooke Farrell (17) with son Sidnie (22 months), Reiarna McCormack (17) with Jessica Garden (4 months), Sarah Cross (19) with family friend Sasha Harris (2) and Courtney Ward (19) with son Jayden Kinns (10 months).

Incoming Fortune Theatre artistic director Jonathon Hendry was introduced to patrons at the 2016 season launch in Dunedin yesterday.

Melissa Van Der Haegen (11) leads the George Street Normal School kapa haka group in Dunedin's Meridian mall yesterday to promote the Kmart Wishing Tree Appeal.

Noise complaints about buskers in the lower Octagon forced the Dunedin City Council to create a booking system to give performers exclusive slots to play to cruise ship passengers.

Dunedin Highland dancer Serena Sangster (19) is set to realise a lifelong dream by performing at the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo.

A 24-year-old woman has died after falling from a steep cliff face in Mt Aspiring National Park.

If you're after a hotel bed and a restaurant booking in Dunedin tonight, you've left your run a tad late.

A former Waitaki Valley man is on a pilgrimage around New Zealand on a horse-drawn cart to celebrate a simpler way of life.

Tour operators parking buses on Central Dunedin car parks are blocking access to his business and to a fire hydrant, a cafe owner says.

A dark Dunedin warehouse will be transformed to an enchanted forest of giant lanterns to celebrate the summer solstice.

A well-known South Dunedin costume shop is closing after 50 years.

Hallelujah - A Dunedin singer has been belting out Messiah for nearly 60 years and shows no signs of stopping.

A reality television show is testing whanau responses behind the wheel in Dunedin.

The Salvation Army's ''The Wonder of Christmas'' opened in Dunedin last night - without a Santa.

A loyal customer was the first to walk down the aisles of a ''wonderful'' new Dunedin supermarket yesterday.

Power bills for many Otago consumers are dropping, thanks to a rush of new players into the electricity retail market. Part of a nationwide trend, small and medium-sized businesses are taking on the big companies.